On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: > > Gotta love it that Long Term Support. Trust me it will not be the last > > time you curse it. </rant> > > I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them > because they don't backport new features from more current releases into older > ones. As far as I know, LTSP current isn't being backported into either > Fedora > 3 or Debian Sarge. > That's not a really fair comparison, since Ubuntu 8.04 is still a current release. Fedora 3 and Sarge are not. There are active LTSP backports for Debian Lenny (the current "stable" release -- analagous to Ubuntu LTS).
In Debian I can pretty easily run the stable release and install select packages from testing or unstable. For packages with a lot of dependencies, it might not be easy, but I've had pretty good success with commands like: apt-get install openoffice.org/testing or apt-get install -t testing openoffice.org (both do slightly different things). I've yet to try this with LTSP packages, I must admit. Can this be done in Ubuntu? I don't currently have any Ubuntu machines that I'm willing to experiment on. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
